Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:39:46 +0100 | From | Tobias Diedrich <> | Subject | Re: Strange IDE performance change in 2.6.1-rc1 (again) |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 'cat' is probably doing a stat() on stdout and seeing it's connected > to /dev/null and not even bothering to do the write() call. I've seen > similar behavior in other GNU utilities.
I can't see any special casing for /dev/null in cat's source, but I forgot to check dd with bigger block size. It's ok with bs=4096...
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